Social Science & Medicine

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  • Net worth poverty and adult health..  318:115614. 2023
  • Attribution for everyday discrimination typologies and mortality risk among older black adults: Evidence from the health and retirement study?.  316:115166. 2023
  • Correlates of early stimulation activities among mothers of children under age two in Siaya County, Kenya: Maternal mental health and other maternal, child, and household factors..  287:114369. 2021
  • Vital personality scores and healthy aging: Life-course associations and familial transmission..  285:114283. 2021
  • Reparations for Black American descendants of persons enslaved in the U.S. and their potential impact on SARS-CoV-2 transmission..  276:113741. 2021
  • Education, adult children's education, and depressive symptoms among older adults in rural China..  253:112966. 2020
  • Longitudinal associations between parent-child relationship quality and insomnia for aging parents: The mediating role of depressive symptoms..  253:112972. 2020
  • Immigration and health among non-Hispanic whites: The impact of arrival cohort and region of birth..  246:112754. 2020
  • "When you have no water, it means you have no peace": A mixed-methods, whole-population study of water insecurity and depression in rural Uganda..  245:112561. 2020
  • Effects of a sister's death in childbirth on reproductive behaviors: Difference-in-difference analyses using sisterhood mortality data from Indonesia..  250:112795. 2020
  • Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of incentives as a tool for prevention of non-communicable diseases: A systematic review..  232:340-350. 2019
  • Residential neighborhood greenery and children's cognitive development..  230:271-279. 2019
  • Contributory behaviors and life satisfaction among Chinese older adults: Exploring variations by gender and living arrangements..  229:70-78. 2019
  • Attitudes toward alcohol use during pregnancy among women recruited from alcohol-serving venues in Cape Town, South Africa: A mixed-methods study..  215:98-106. 2018
  • At the intersection of place, race, and health in Brazil: Residential segregation and cardio-metabolic risk factors in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil)..  199:67-76. 2018
  • Timing of poverty in childhood and adolescent health: Evidence from the US and UK..  197:136-143. 2018
  • Developing a scale to assess health regulatory focus..  195:50-60. 2017
  • Dynamic modeling approaches to characterize the functioning of health systems: A systematic review of the literature.  194:160-167. 2017
  • Hearing impairment, social support, and depressive symptoms among U.S. adults: A test of the stress process paradigm.  192:94-101. 2017
  • Causal effects of transitions to adult roles on early adult smoking and drinking: Evidence from three cohorts..  187:193-202. 2017
  • Applying economic incentives to increase effectiveness of an outpatient weight loss program (TRIO) - A randomized controlled trial..  185:63-70. 2017
  • Socioeconomic position, John Henryism, and incidence of acute myocardial infarction in Finnish men..  173:54-62. 2017
  • Region of origin diversity in immigrant health: Moving beyond the Mexican case..  166:102-109. 2016
  • Cultural carrying capacity: Organ donation advocacy, discursive framing, and social media engagement..  165:280-288. 2016
  • Equally inequitable? A cross-national comparative study of racial health inequalities in the United States and Canada..  161:19-26. 2016
  • Childhood adversity and adult health: Evaluating intervening mechanisms..  156:114-124. 2016
  • Supporting employees' work-family needs improves health care quality: Longitudinal evidence from long-term care.  157:111-119. 2016
  • Evidence of social network influence on multiple HIV risk behaviors and normative beliefs among young Tanzanian men..  153:35-43. 2016
  • Corrigendum to "Women's entrepreneurship and intimate partner violence: A cluster randomized trial of microenterprise assistance and partner participation in post-conflict Uganda" [Soc. Sci. Med. 133 (2015) 177-188].  148:139-141. 2016
  • Clarifying hierarchical age-period-cohort models: A rejoinder to Bell and Jones..  145:125-128. 2015
  • An empirical assessment of the "healthy prisoner hypothesis"..  138:187-191. 2015
  • Women's entrepreneurship and intimate partner violence: A cluster randomized trial of microenterprise assistance and partner participation in post-conflict Uganda (SSM-D-14-01580R1)..  133:177-188. 2015
  • Should age-period-cohort studies return to the methodologies of the 1970s?.  128:356-365. 2015
  • Tragic, but not random: the social contagion of nonfatal gunshot injuries..  125:139-150. 2015
  • "It's better for me to drink, at least the stress is going away": perspectives on alcohol use during pregnancy among South African women attending drinking establishments..  116:119-125. 2014
  • Social marketing of water and sanitation products: a systematic review of peer-reviewed literature..  110:18-25. 2014
  • Challenges to recruiting population representative samples of female sex workers in China using Respondent Driven Sampling. 2014
  • Perceived Organizational Justice in Care Services: creation and multi-sample validation of a measure..  102:26-32. 2014
  • Managing uncertainty: a grounded theory of stigma in transgender health care encounters..  84:22-29. 2013
  • Breast cancer anxiety's associations with responses to a chemoprevention decision aid..  77:13-19. 2013
  • Socioeconomic status, John Henryism and blood pressure among African-Americans in the Jackson Heart Study.  93:139-146. 2013
  • Aggravating conditions: Cynical hostility and neighborhood ambient stressors.  75:2258-2266. 2012
  • Rising U.S. income inequality and the changing gradient of socioeconomic status on physical functioning and activity limitations, 1984-2007..  75:2170-2182. 2012
  • Gender-based violence and HIV sexual risk behavior: alcohol use and mental health problems as mediators among women in drinking venues, Cape Town..  75:1417-1425. 2012
  • High Caesarean section rate in rural China: is it related to health insurance (New Co-operative Medical Scheme)?.  75:733-737. 2012
  • "Because he has bought for her, he wants to sleep with her": alcohol as a currency for sexual exchange in South African drinking venues..  74:1005-1012. 2012
  • Discrimination and psychological distress: Does Whiteness matter for Arab Americans?.  75:2116-2123. 2012
  • Taxing sin and saving lives: Can alcohol taxation reduce female homicides?.  73:169-176. 2011
  • Are neighborhood education levels associated with BMI among adults in Cairo, Egypt?.  72:1274-1283. 2011
  • Understanding how race/ethnicity and gender define age-trajectories of disability: an intersectionality approach..  72:1236-1248. 2011
  • Narratives that address affective forecasting errors reduce perceived barriers to colorectal cancer screening..  71:45-52. 2010
  • Dramatic increase of Cesarean deliveries in the midst of health reforms in rural China..  70:1544-1549. 2010
  • Morbidity and mortality disparities among colonist and indigenous populations in the Ecuadorian Amazon..  70:401-411. 2010
  • Family and school socioeconomic disadvantage: interactive influences on adolescent dating violence victimization..  68:1956-1965. 2009
  • "It's all the time in my mind": facilitators of adherence to antiretroviral therapy in a Tanzanian setting..  68:1793-1800. 2009
  • Community-based delivery of maternal care in conflict-affected areas of eastern Burma: perspectives from lay maternal health workers..  68:1332-1340. 2009
  • Access to healthcare services makes a difference in healthy longevity among older Chinese adults..  68:210-219. 2009
  • Can social capital be intentionally generated? a randomized trial from rural South Africa..  67:1559-1570. 2008
  • Stigma, social inequality, and HIV risk disclosure among Dominican male sex workers..  67:380-388. 2008
  • Is social capital associated with HIV risk in rural South Africa?.  66:1999-2010. 2008
  • Accounting for institutional change in health economic evaluation: a program to tackle HIV/AIDS and gender violence in Southern Africa..  66:922-932. 2008
  • Factors affecting physician visits in Chinese and Chinese immigrant samples..  66:704-714. 2008
  • Understanding the role of cancer worry in creating a "teachable moment" for multiple risk factor reduction..  66:790-800. 2008
  • What length of hospice use maximizes reduction in medical expenditures near death in the US Medicare program?.  65:1466-1478. 2007
  • Racial disparities in diabetes a century ago: evidence from the pension files of US Civil War veterans..  64:1766-1775. 2007
  • John Henryism, self-reported physical health indicators, and the mediating role of perceived stress among high socio-economic status Asian immigrants..  64:1192-1203. 2007
  • Characteristics of the institutionalized and community-residing oldest-old in China..  64:871-883. 2007
  • The social distribution of risk at work: acute injuries and physical assaults among healthcare workers working in a long-term care facility..  64:794-806. 2007
  • Corrigendum to: "Retaining the meaning of the words religiousness and spirituality: A commentary on the WHOQOL SRPB group's "A cross-cultural study of spirituality, religion, and personal beliefs as components of quality of life" (62(6), 2005, 1486-1497)". [Social Sci. Med. 63 (2006) 843-845] (DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.03.001).  63:2753. 2006
  • Does decentralisation improve human resource management in the health sector? A case study from China..  63:1836-1845. 2006
  • A typology of preferences for participation in healthcare decision making..  63:1158-1169. 2006
  • Should structural interventions be evaluated using RCTs? The case of HIV prevention..  63:1135-1142. 2006
  • Retaining the meaning of the words religiousness and spirituality: a commentary on the WHOQOL SRPB group's "a cross-cultural study of spirituality, religion, and personal beliefs as components of quality of life" (62: 6, 2005, 1486-1497)..  63:843-845. 2006
  • Erratum to "Gender inequalities in US adult health: The interplay of race and ethnicity". [Social Science & Medicine 62 (2006) 1045-1065] (DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.07.009).  62:3197-3198. 2006
  • Understanding health behavior change among couples: an interdependence and communal coping approach..  62:1369-1380. 2006
  • Gender Inequalities in US Adult Health: The Interplay of Race and Ethnicity.  62:1045-1065. 2006
  • Therapeutic misconception in early phase gene transfer trials..  62:239-253. 2006
  • Heavy alcohol use and marital dissolution in the USA..  61:2304-2316. 2005
  • Longevity following the experience of parental divorce..  61:2177-2189. 2005
  • Receding horizons of health: biocultural approaches to public health paradoxes..  61:861-878. 2005
  • The impact of considering adaptation in health state valuation..  61:267-277. 2005
  • The impact of own and spouse's urinary incontinence on depressive symptoms..  60:2537-2548. 2005
  • Innovation, diffusion and safety of a medical technology: a review of the literature on injection practices..  60:1133-1147. 2005
  • The role of social norms and friends' influences on unhealthy weight-control behaviors among adolescent girls..  60:1165-1173. 2005
  • Systematic review of sexual risk among pregnant and mothering teens in the USA: pregnancy as an opportunity for integrated prevention of STD and repeat pregnancy..  60:661-678. 2005
  • Arab Immigrants: A New Case for Ethnicity and Health?.  61:77-82. 2005
  • Social inequality and depressive disorders in Bahia, Brazil: interactions of gender, ethnicity, and social class..  59:1339-1353. 2004
  • Distribution of distress in post-socialist Mongolia: a cultural epidemiology of yadargaa..  58:471-485. 2004
  • The influence of cost-effectiveness information on physicians' cancer screening recommendations..  56:1727-1736. 2003
  • Volunteering and depression: the role of psychological and social resources in different age groups..  56:259-269. 2003
  • Barriers, facilitators, and access for wheelchair users: substantive and methodologic lessons from a pilot study of environmental effects..  55:1435-1446. 2002
  • Neighborhood structural characteristics and mental disorder: Faris and Dunham revisited..  55:1457-1470. 2002
  • Physician-patient communication about over-the-counter medications..  53:357-369. 2001
  • Shan women and girls and the sex industry in Southeast Asia; political causes and human rights implications..  53:543-550. 2001
  • Healthy markets? The new competition in health care.  52:1919-1919. 2001
  • Social inequalities, stressors and self reported health status among African American and white women in the Detroit metropolitan area..  51:1639-1653. 2000
  • Hospital credentialing and quality of care..  50:77-88. 2000
  • How stable are people's preferences for giving priority to severely ill patients?.  49:895-903. 1999
  • Age differences in the effects of network composition on psychological distress..  49:621-636. 1999
  • Rural health prepayment schemes in China: towards a more active role for government..  48:951-960. 1999
  • The natural life of policy indices: geographical problem areas in the U.S. and U.K..  47:713-725. 1998
  • Hospital pharmacy decisions, cost containment, and the use of cost-effectiveness analysis..  45:523-533. 1997
  • Surrogate assessment of coronary artery disease patients' functional capacity..  44:1491-1502. 1997
  • The role of decision analysis in informed consent: choosing between intuition and systematicity..  44:647-656. 1997
  • Conclusions and implications.  45:645-647. 1997
  • Migration of persons with AIDS--a search for support from elderly parents?.  43:1109-1118. 1996
  • Distributing scarce livers: the moral reasoning of the general public..  42:1049-1055. 1996
  • Medical futility decisions and physicians' legal defensiveness: the impact of anticipated conflict on thresholds for end-of-life treatment..  42:125-132. 1996
  • Cooperative medical schemes in contemporary rural China..  41:1111-1118. 1995
  • Quality of life of 125 adults surviving 6-18 years after bone marrow transplantation..  40:479-490. 1995
  • Role orientation and community pharmacists' participation in a project to improve patient care..  40:557-565. 1995
  • Dynamics of functional impairment in late adulthood..  38:925-936. 1994
  • Association between maternal education and infant diarrhea in different household and community environments of Cebu, Philippines..  38:343-350. 1994
  • Hispanic Americans and the state mental hospitals in Texas: ethnic parity as a latent function of a fiscal incentive policy..  37:917-926. 1993
  • Financing health care in rural China: preliminary report of a nationwide study..  36:385-391. 1993
  • Medical ethics in the primary care setting..  25:705-709. 1987
  • Foreword.  23:781. 1986
  • Why has hospital length of stay declined? An evaluation of alternative theories..  22:63-73. 1986
  • Introduction.  20:1083. 1985
  • Changes in primary medical care delivery, 1975-1979: findings from the physician capacity utilization surveys..  18:653-660. 1984
  • Is there any defense against national defense?.  19:325-327. 1984
  • Long-term use of narcotic analgesics in chronic pain..  19:1379-1382. 1984
  • The 36-hour day: A family guide to caring for persons with Alzheimer's disease, related dementing illnesses and memory loss in later life.  17:251-252. 1983
  • The family routines inventory: development and validation..  17:201-211. 1983
  • The family routines inventory: theoretical origins..  17:193-200. 1983
  • The urban elderly: A study of life satisfaction.  16:1105-1105. 1982